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July 11th, 2011

Live Long And Prosper Star Trek 4x6 Photo Frame - $26.95
Are you looking for a logical housewarming gift for your favorite Trekkie? Get them the Live Long And Prosper Star Trek 4x6 Photo Frame from the NeatoShop. ...

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If you haven't heard, Los Angeles is bracing for a 2 day closure of a 10-mile stretch of the 405 freeway. This cataclysmic event is being called "Carmageddon." Los Angeles considers this a freeway cl...

Valle de la Luna means Valley of the Moon, an area you'll find near the village of Mallasa in Bolivia. The towering cliffs and the dark valleys in between them honestly resemble something you might find in a sc...

Jelly Shots: The Jell-O Mold Competition is organised by an artists’ collective in Brooklyn. A group of chefs, artists and designers produced some amazingly realistic looking creations using gelatin as their mediu...

When I was a kid I made spaceships and little robots that fell apart when I played with them out of my Lego sets. Now in an ever continuing trend of cool yet useful things people are making with Legos, designer “Me...

An artist wondered “How do computers see us?” To figure it out he set up computers in stores around NYC to capture people staring at computers. See the fun video and gallery at the link.
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What do you do when you are the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and you want to learn how to control flooding? You recreate the Mississippi River to simulate floods. See the gallery of photos at the link of this amazing...

Here is a list of 25 everyday things you may or may not know had names. I didn’t know half of these such as my favorite, the Philtrum, “The groove located just below the nose and above the middle of the lips.”...

Pig Jax - $3.95
Bringing home the bacon is hard work. Add some fun to your weary workday with the Pig Jax from the NeatoShop. Gather around some coworkers to chew the fat, bounce around some ideas, and watch the p...

Do you ever drive on roads that feel like you're driving on a washboard?
When I visit northern Minnesota, I always encounter a road that in midsummer becomes classically "washboard." The county sends out a road grader...

ZooBorns brings us news and pictures of baby animals born in zoos all over the world. Get the condensed version as Jill Harness culled the cutest pictures from Zooborns in a list at Oddee. The baby red panda shown is...

Researchers at UC Berkeley and Smithsonian Institution paleontologists have collaborated on a study of gray whales and how they survived so many global climate changes. The result-gray whales varied their diets and a...

Members of the MIT Media Lab have created a python script called Minecraft.print() which will allow players of Minecraft with access to a 3D printer the opportunity to print out their creations. And while the odds of...

In the follow up to the smash hit console game Arkham Asylum called (gasp!) Arkham City players will be able to play as Catwoman. Batman fans were happy to finally have a game worthy of the Dark Knight, and Arkham Ci...

Jim Henson wasn't all puppets and special effects, sometimes his mind wandered into strange places, and this clip from the TV special The Cube illustrates that his genius knew no bounds. This surreal show aired 2 epi...

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If you're eager to see the upcoming season of East Bound & Down, then let this video satiate your excitement in the meanwhile. If you aren't familiar with the show, let me introduce you to Mr. Kenny P...

Four reactors in Japan, Scotland and Israel were recently shutdown after jellyfish blocked the screens used to filter out the seawater needed to cool down the reactors. Apparently there have been dozens of similar shut d...

I don't know about you, but I wouldn't want to give birth to a 16 pound baby, even if it was through a caesarian. On top of every thing else, you'd have to worry about trying to find clothes for him. Janet Johnson, who j...